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Désert de Tanami, Australie, complexe de test du Consortium
En 1996, Pharcom signa un accord de développement avec le ministre de la santé d'Australie du Sud, afin de fournir des services médicaux via le réseau satellite Kintore. Ce réseau était supervisé par quatre paraboles installées dans le désert de Tunami, d'Alice Springs à Tennant Creek.
Conçu à l'origine pour fournir des services de diagnostic médical à distance entre des communautés espacées parfois par plus de 8 heures de route, ce réseau était en réalité utilisé pour transmettre des données codées à haute fréquence sur la séquence d'ADN du virus. Le virus synthétisé pouvait ensuite être testé sur les populations aborigènes. Le gouvernement australien avait ainsi, sans le savoir, aidé Phagan à financer le développement de Syphon Filter. |
Moscow, Russia, Izmailovo Park
Izmailovo is one of the oldest forest parks in Moscow. The name comes from an ancient village whose first owners, the noble Izmailovs, occupied high positions at the courts of Moscow Czars and princes. In the 17th and the first half of the 18th centuries Izmailovo served as a summer residence of the Romanovs.
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In the north-eastern part of the park there are fortification ramparts that have remained since Czar Peter's time, built for his games and military training. Also, one can see dams and hydrotechnical installations dating back to the 18th century.
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Dublin, Ireland, S.S. Lorelei To transport the virus overseas, the Consortium used specially constructed Bio-Cryo Containers which consist of dry-ice encased vials housed within internal 10 gauge steel drums. The drums, which have lockable lids, go inside an EPS insulated box which is contained in a tough fibreboard, water tight, fire resistant box.
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The entire cryo unit would then sit inside ordinary wooden crates and shipping containers which were labeled and catalogued as traditional types of cargo. While the ship passed through customs and inspections outside consortium control, all ship's personnel were employed by the consortium.
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Kabul, Afghanistan, Shirpur District The first record of the existence of an oasis around the Kabul River dates to two thousand years B.C. in the ancient Indian hymns of Rigivida. Based on the writings of Avista, this city was called Vigarute. In the Rigvida Songs the region surrounding the Kabul River was called Kabukha. Kabul originated 3500 years ago.
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The new district of Shirpur (Shir Abad) was founded between 1863-1878. The residential area of the city was divided into separate Gozar with public centers including Masjet-mosque-, Chaikhana-cafe-, and Dokan-small shops-. By the second half of the 19th century large Bazaars such as Shor Bazaar, and Chindawol Bazaar, were formed in Kabul.
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Costa Rican Rainforest, Rhoemer's Laboratories
In 1988 Mesoamerican specialist Karl Lorenzen was the first archaeologist to officially report the site of El Naranjal to the Costa Rican Instituto Nacional de Anthropologia y Historia. A magnificent Aztec ruin, it had remained hidden in the deepest rainforest for thousands of years. Jonathan Phagan was one of the few Americans who served on its board.
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The site's isolation attracted phagan. He needed a place where he could grow pharmacological plants in secrecy, a native population which could be coerced into menial labor, and ready made structures to house his lab equipment. Drug shipments were facilitated by the crates of Aztec artifacts sent daily to his museum. Lorenzen, it seems, died in an accident soon after his discovery.
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Almaty, Kazakhstan, Rhoemer's computer center
With the breakup of the former Soviet Union, the number of countries acknowledged as possessing nuclear weapons temporarily increased to eight: the U.S., Russia, Kazahkstan, Ukraine, Belarus, China, France and Great Britain. Kazahkstan and Belarus have since given up the weapons on their territory.
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Rhoemer's organization bought this silo from the cash strapped Kazak government sometime in the late 1980s. Agency data specialists, working closely with Pharcom's viral engineers, stripped out the outmoded Russian computer systems that had been
used for missile guidance, and replaced them with these supercomputers which were capable of gene sequencing.
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Uzhhorod, Ukraine, Rhoemer's Stronghold Cathedral Restoration Project. Volodymyr Irshenko: 'This project was adopted by bureaucrats, not experts. It does not take into account the specifics of the monastery's subterranean structure. They rejected a proposal to restore the cathedral slowly, by stages, allowing the archaeologists and other researchers time to work on the site.'
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'Their approach is especially dangerous in the burial sector and demolition area where the ground is very unstable. Officials interested in this project bypassed all advisory bodies and started restoration work immediately. They seem to ignore the fact that we must not only rebuild but also preserve things of historical value.'
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Paradise Ridge, Montana, Oakton Militia Compound Earl Oakton moved to Montana in the early 70's after being discharged from the Army following the Vietnam war. He was attracted to the isolationist spirit the state seemed to foster, and was soon an active member of the State Militia, who's motto was: The strongest reason for the people to retain arms is to protect against tyranny in government.
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After a string of incidents in which the feds broke into militia members' homes to seize weapons, Oakton started a group called F.I.S.T.: Foundation to Inhibit State Treason, and turned his mountain retreat into a military compound, complete with underground bunkers. If the feds came for his guns, they would have to pry them from his cold dead fingers.
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Western Afghanistan, Nangarhar Province Muhammad Anvar Amin's Memoirs on the Jihad: 'I told them to go down to where the Niзat Valley comes out and climb up the big cliff walls and wait, so that if any vehicles come from below, they should blow up the cliffs and bury them. I sent thirty young men, and in the morning I sent the others across and down the road.'
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'The men had gotten Kalashnikov rifles. I told them, if they were not prepared, the army will slip on past us again; they'll take our women and children, and we'll be shamed. This road was handed over to you; it was handed over to God.' We would destroy the communist Russians, or we would die in the attempt.
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Agency Headquarters,Training Simulator This high-tech virtual reality training simulator was designed in the late 1990s. Its main purpose is to force inexperienced agents to be completely focused on their surroundings while in a tactical combat situation: in most places, stepping off the green grid will result in a fall and deducted points.
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The arena is divided into three vertical levels. The floor grid on the middle level will block line-of-sight (LOS), but not the upper floor grids, so watch for shots from below. While the holographic images do not hinder movement, they will block LOS, so use them to your advantage.
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